Cleaning Springfield XD 9mm Handgun Barrel with a Snake Bore Tool

Video Transcript

"What I'm going to do now is open up my Hoppe's and I'm just going to kind of tilt my jar over here and just slightly put my bore snake into it. You can see a little discoloration where it's like wet, here. If you feel like you've got a little bit of excess, I always keep my lid handy and I'll just take my lid over and I'll take the bore snake and kind of dab that into the lid if I feel that I've got any extra Hoppe's. What I'm going to do now is I'm just going to line out my bore snake and we're going to get to clean the barrel. Here we are, we've got our barrel, we got our Hoppe's on our bore snake, we're just going to drop our brass weight through our barrel. It just seems kind of overkill but this is a sub-compact firearm with a short barrel so it's just going to be real quick and easy. You're going to feel some tension when that, when the beginning where the string ties into the swab. We're going to pull through. Oh, yeah! Got a little bit of friction here, and we got the brushes coming out and then we just, that swab will come through pretty easy. I'm going to do that one more time. I just like to do it. They advertise this being a one time swab and it really can be, but I've been putting a little bit of use on this so I'm going to do it just two for good measure. I'm going to wrap my string around my fingers a couple times here because this gets a little bit of friction. I'm actually going to pick this up and see how it's starting to, there we go. Once that swab's going that swab will come out pretty easy. The next thing we're going to do is we're actually going to get our bore light and we're going to look inside our barrel and make sure that we've cleaned out everything in the rifling that we want cleaned out."